Advertising Marketing

The power of glitzy advertising and elaborate marketing campaigns is on the wane; word- of-mouth referrals are what drive business today. People trust the recommendation of a friend, family member, colleague, or even stranger with similar tastes over anything thrust at them by a faceless company. Most business owners believe that whether customers refer them is entirely out of their hands. But science shows that people can't help recommending products and services to their friends....

Over the past 20 years, category creation and category design has gone from being a little-known "positioning" secret from advertising legends like David Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, Al Ries, Jack Trout, Gary Halbert, and more, to now becoming the single most in-demand skill among business leaders, Fortune 500 executives, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, marketers, and even the next generation of digital creators.

You're a sales professional. It's what you were meant be. Selling is in your blood. Following up on his phenomenal best-selling audiocassette program, The Psychology of Selling, Brian Tracy's Advanced Selling Techniques is a powerhouse advanced selling program for seasoned sales professionals.

With a million monthly Spotify listeners and 130 million streams, Chris knows how to harness the power of this incredible music sharing platform. He understands how to trigger the algorithm, how to pitch and get added to editorial playlists, and how to co-create with other artists to enhance your profile and your reach.

Best selling author Jack Trout doesn't beat around the bush. He takes marketers to task for taking the easy route too often, employing high-tech razzle-dazzle and sleight of hand when they should be working to discover and market their product's uniquely valuable qualities. He examines successful differentiation initiatives and outlines the many ways you can achieve differentiation.

In this groundbreaking audiobook, Pauline Brown, a former leader of the world’s top luxury goods company and a pioneer in identifying the role of aesthetics in business, shows executives, entrepreneurs, and other professionals how to harness the power of the senses to create products, services, and experiences that stand out, resonate with their customers, and create long-term value for their businesses. The power is rooted in Aesthetic Intelligence - or "the other AI", as Brown refers to it.

The latest edition of The New Rules of Marketing and PR has been completely revised and updated to present the most innovative methods and cost-effective strategies. The most comprehensive update yet shows you details about the pros and cons of AI and machine learning to automate routine tasks. Your life is already AI-assisted. Your marketing should be too, but there are challenges to be aware of.

Black Ops Advertising dissects this rapid rise of "sponsored content," a strategy whereby advertisers have become publishers and publishers create advertising - all under the guise of unbiased information. Covert selling, mostly in the form of native advertising and content marketing, has so blurred the lines between editorial content and marketing message that it is next to impossible to tell real news from paid endorsements.

2023 UPDATED EDITION. Learn Google Ads (AdWords) in Plain English - Step by Step!

Internet marketing pioneer Seth Godin says he wants to change the way almost everything is marketed today. Will you give him permission to show you the future? Listen to how you can turn strangers into friends and friends into customers with this groundbreaking new approach.

As marketers, we've been travelling at breakneck speed over the past few years. More and more technologies and opportunities present themselves on a daily basis, and it doesn't seem possible to keep up. In fact, we shouldn't be expected to keep up. What we need is a filtering system that just shares the best up-to-date advice and ensures that the rest of the noise doesn't even reach us.

This second edition of contains over 25 new interviews and case histories, two completely new chapters, introduces a new typology of 12 different kinds of Challengers, has extensive updates of the main chapters, and a range of new exercises.

Public speaking has been around for centuries, and today, motivational speaking is as popular as ever. And, like a motivational speaker, you can also inspire an audience - to open their wallets and give you money! In Speak to Sell, marketing wizard Dan Kennedy shares his secrets.

Growth hackers have thrown out the old playbook and replaced it with tools that are testable, trackable, and scalable. They believe that products and businesses should be modified repeatedly until they're primed to generate explosive reactions. Best-selling author Ryan Holiday, the acclaimed marketing guru for many successful brands, authors, and musicians, explains the new rules in a book that has become a marketing classic in Silicon Valley and around the world.

The goal of this book is to help you expand your business and increase financial growth! If you are intimidated to market your products and services, now is the time to let that fear go. You have this book to help you achieve your goals and fulfill your dreams!

Sidestep the marketing books, courses, and even TED talks that offer hypothetical explanations that sound sensible and embrace the proven systematic approach of R.E.D. Marketing, which the recent CEO and current CMO of Yum! Brands applied to lead Taco Bell and KFC to double digit growth. This book, filled with simple frameworks and engaging stories, will help everyone in your company understand what really works for driving sustainable brand growth and business success.

If you’re running (or starting) an agency, the odds are against you. The market is saturated and it’s hard to gain the trust of new customers. How do you build a truly remarkable agency business that wins and keeps clients? In The Agency: Build - Grow - Repeat, you’ll discover proven and actionable strategies and tools to build a remarkable agency business that wins and keeps clients (and staff).

Imagine knowing how the human mind works, having the power to influence and motivate people at will to buy your products and services. What would that be worth to you? As you listen to this audiobook, you will experience first-hand and quickly discover highly controversial persuasion secrets that will boggle your mind, and the mind of any prospect you target. I'll reveal 47 ways you can use psychological tactics to induce people to pull out their credit cards and buy from you.

A brand's meaning—how it resonates in the public heart and mind—is a company's most valuable competitive advantage. Yet, few companies really know how brand meaning works, how to manage it, and how to use brand meaning strategically. This groundbreaking book provides the illusive and compelling answer. Using studies drawn from the experiences of Nike, Marlboro, Ivory, and other powerhouse brands, the authors show that the most successful brands are those that most effectively correspond to fundamental patterns in the unconscious mind known as archetypes.

Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins is a timeless classic in the field of marketing and advertising. The book outlines Hopkins's revolutionary approach to advertising, emphasizing the importance of testing and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Through empirical observation and data analysis, Hopkins argues that advertising should be treated as a science rather than an art, with measurable results guiding decision-making. With clear and concise language, Hopkins shares his insights into consumer psychology, emphasizing the importance of understanding the desires and motivations of potential customers.